Early Career
On 1 October 1847, he joined the British army and was assigned to the Royal Engineers. He was trained at Chatham in Kent, at the School of Military Engineering. In 1850 he was transferred to the Ordnance Survey in Southampton.
From 1851 to 1854 Clarke served in Canada, where he married Frances Dixon in 1853. The couple had four sons and nine daughters.
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